“Manipulators calling for CBN governor sack are palm wine drinkers” – Oshiomhole
– Adams Oshiomhole, the governor of Edo state, has decried the calls for the sacking of Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor
– “President Buhari is not going to be fooled by people who want to have a regime where government is just an onlooker.”
Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole has harshly criticized those agitating for the immediate sack of Mr Godwin Emefiele, the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Calling them “faceless manipulators and palm wine drinkers”, the governor said President Muhammadu Buhari will not respond to senseless provocation. Mr Oshiomhole expressed his irritation during meeting with journalists on Wednesday evening in Abuja.
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The governor has visited the country’s capital to obtain license from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the second newly established Edo State University, located in his native Iyamho village.
Oshiomhole said: “If a CBN governor is doing fine, the hiring and firing is not a matter that should be discussed by Facebook manipulators and by the time you unmasked the people behind it, they are palm wine drinkers.
They are those who have been feeding fat on our common patrimony and manipulating the exchange rate, moving money across borders and taking advantage of electronic money transfer.
President Buhari is not going to be fooled by people who want to have a regime where government is just an onlooker and allow the naira to become worthless and people are making money from speculations; so, those guys are wasting their time.
We have a new Federal Government that has won election on the basis on a mantra of change and there are all kinds of people who have made a lot of money from the economy without contributing anything by just playing on exchange rates.
And you do not want to trigger a process that will lead to endless devaluation that ultimately will reduce Nigerian naira to Zimbabwe dollar.”
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The governor also explained there are many challenges in current economic situation, mentioning the limited inflow of forex and crude oil price daily decline in the international market that causes a shortfall in foreign exchange earnings available to the nation.
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